Awards & Recognition
Princeton University Press books have won numerous awards, including six Pulitzer Prizes, five Bancroft Prizes, three National Book Awards, and hundreds of major awards from academic organizations. Dozens of Press authors have been awarded the most prestigious academic prizes in the world, including the Nobel Prize in economics, physics, chemistry, medicine, and literature, the Fields Medal, and the Holberg Prize. To inquire about our awards program, including for nomination calls and author requests, please contact Steve_Stillman@press.princeton.edu.
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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year
A New Yorker Best Book We've Read This YearLonglisted for the Cundill History Prize, McGill University
Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize, McGill University
Winner of the John K. Fairbank Prize, American Historical AssociationA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Winner of the Kenneth Jackson Award, Urban History Association
Honorable Mention for the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American HistoriansA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Shortlisted for the Joseph W. Elder Prize in Social Sciences, American Institute of Indian StudiesShortlisted for the W.K. Hancock Prize, Australian Historical Association
Shortlisted for the Joseph W. Elder Prize in Social Sciences, American Institute of Indian Studies
Longlisted for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize, New India Foundation
Winner of the Fondazione Roma Sapienza Book PrizeLonglisted for the Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League
Shortlisted for the Laura Shannon Prize, Nanovic Institute for European Studies
Winner of the Giuseppe Galasso History Prize, Neapolitan History Society
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the YearA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Biological Anthropology, Ancient History, and Archaeology, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the Ernst Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Holocaust LibraryA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Holocaust Category
Winner of the George L. Mosse Prize, American Historical Association
A Financial Times Best Summer BookA Financial Times Best Book of the Year- History
A Democracy Paradox Absolute Must Read Book About Democracy
Winner of the Hubert Morken Award, Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
Winner of the J David Greenstone Award, Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association
Honorable Mention for the Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
Honorable Mention for the Robert L Jervis and Paul W Schroeder Best Book Award, International History and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
Winner of the James Henry Breasted Prize, American Historical AssociationWinner of the Keimyung Silk Road Award, Academia Via Serica
Winner of the Pacific Coast Branch Book Award, American Historical AssociationWinner of the Margaret Wade Labarge Prize, Canadian Society of Medievalists
Winner of the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association
Winner of the Salo W. Baron Prize, American Academy for Jewish Research
Honorable Mention for the Howard Cline Prize in Mexican History, Latin American Studies Association
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, History CategoryWinner of the James Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law & Society Association
Winner of the Mediterranean Seminar Best Book Prize
Co-Winner – Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association
Winner of the Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association
Finalist for the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American PublishersWinner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Scholarship
Longlisted for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize, New India Foundation
Winner of the Outstanding Book Award, History of Education Society
A Spectator Book of the YearA Prospect Best History Book of the Year
A FiveBooks Best Economic History Book of the Year
Finalist for the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American Publishers
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize
An Australian Most Anticipated Book
A Chronicle of Higher Education's Best Scholarly Book of the YearA Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association of American Publishers
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Winner of the Dorothy Rosenberg Prize, American Historical AssociationWinner of the Albert C. Outler Prize, American Society of Church History
Finalist for the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, Association for Jewish Studies
Runner up for the British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies Book Prize
National Book Award FinalistSelected Entry for the National Book Critics Circle Award
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Daily Telegraph Best History Book of the YearA Daily Telegraph Best Book of the Year
Winner of the Award of Merit for History & Biography, Christianity Today
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA Financial Times Best History Book of the Year
Winner of the Inaugural Book Prize, Australasian Association for European History
Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign RelationsWinner of the Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award, American Historical Association
Honorable Mention for the Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award
Winner of the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize, McGill UniversityShortlisted for the Kenshur Prize, Bloomington Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies
A History Today Book of the Year
Winner of the Kenshur Prize, Bloomington Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize
Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award in NonfictionWinner of the Cover & Design Award, The Nebraska Center for the Book
A New Statesman Essential Non-Fiction Book of 2021Winner of the PROSE Award in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association of American Publishers
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A History Today Book of the Year
Winner of the Silver Medal in Biography, Independent Publisher Book AwardsWinner of the Book-of-the-Year Award, Journal of the American Revolution
Finalist in History, ForeWord Reviews’ INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Christophe Jaffrelot, Winner of the Prix Raymond de Boyer de Sainte-Suzanne, Académie française (for the original French edition)Financial Times Best Books of 2021: Politics
A The Hindu Top 10 Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year
A Fortune Best Book of the Year
Winner of the Bentley Book Prize, World History Association
Winner of the Myrna F. Bernath Book Award, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize, Journal for the History of Ideas
Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History SocietyWinner of the Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize, Western Association of Women Historians
A Wall Street Journal Best Politics Book of the YearA World Magazine Best Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the American Library in Paris Book AwardShortlisted for the Cundill History Prize, McGill University
Winner of the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the Leo Gershoy Award, American Historical Association
Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize, McGill UniversityOne of NPR's 'Books We Love'
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearWinner of the Gyorgy Ranki Prize, Economic History Association
Winner of the Pol Roger Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American Publishers
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Wolfson Foundation
Shortlisted for the London Hellenic Prize, The Hellenic Centre
Longlisted for the Cundill History Prize, McGill University
Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, Society of Architectural Historians of Great BritainWinner of the Historians of British Art Book Prize, Contemporary Subject
Winner of the ASHE Outstanding Book Award, Association for the Study of Higher EducationWinner of the AESA Critics’ Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association
Winner of the Frederic W. Ness Book Award, Association of American Colleges & Universities
Winner of the HES Outstanding Book Award, History of Education Society
Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award, American Educational Research Association
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Women’s Studies
Winner of the Ralph Gomory Prize, Business History ConferenceFinalist for the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American Publishers
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in HistoryWinner of the Henry Adams Book Prize, Society for History in the Federal Government
Winner of the PROSE Award in North American History, Association of American Publishers
Honorable Mention for the Theodore Saloutos Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Finalist for the Shapiro Book Prize, The Shapiro Center for American History and Culture at The Huntington
One of Tyler Cowen's Best Non-Fiction Books of 2020
One of The New York Times's 11 Books to Watch For in MayA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Honorable Mention for the Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in HistoryHonorable Mention for the Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Winner of the Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award, The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American HistoriansWinner of the Richard Slatten Award for Excellence in Virginia Biography, Virginia Museum of History & Culture (Virginia Historical Society)
Co-Winner of the Giovanni Sartori Best Book Award, Qualitative Methods Section of the American Political Science AssociationHonorable Mention, Charles Taylor Book Award, American Political Science Association
Honorable Mention for the Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association
Winner of the Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award, History & Humanities category
Honorable Mention for the J. Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law and Society AssociationWinner of the Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies
One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018
Winner of the 2018 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for ScholarshipWinner of the 2018 J.I. Segal English Non-fiction Award on a Jewish Theme, Jewish Public Library
Winner of the 2018 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Modern Jewish History and Culture: Europe and Israel, Association for Jewish Studies
One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Nonfiction Books of 2018Smithsonian: Best History Books of 2018
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
Winner of the Philip Schaff Prize, American Society of Church History
Shortlisted for the Scottish Research Book of the Year, The Saltire Society
Winner of the 2018 Alexander L. George Book Award, International Society of Political PsychologyWinner of the 2018 Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, Association for the Study of Nationalities
Winner of the 2018 Bronislaw Malinowski Social Sciences Award, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences
Winner of the George McT. Kahin Prize, Association for Asian StudiesWinner of the Distinguished Book Award in Non-U.S. History, Society for Military History
Winner of the Raphael Lemkin Book Award, Institute for the Study of Genocide
Longlisted for the 2019 ICAS Book Prize in Humanities, International Convention of Asia Scholars
One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2018: History
One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018
Winner of the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award, American Society for Legal HistoryRunner-Up Commendation for the DeLong Book History Book Prize, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
Winner of the Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction, Oregon Book AwardsShortlisted for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
Shortlisted for the MAAH Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History
One of Whoopi Goldberg's Favorite Things, ABC The View
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Chicago Tribune writer John Warner's Book That Will Help You Better Understand the Messed-Up Nature of the World
One of The Undefeated's 25 Can't Miss Books of 2019
One of The Progressive's Favorite Books of 2019
One of LitHub's 50 Favorite Books of the Year
One of Inside Higher Ed's Books to Give the Educator in Your Life for the Holidays
Finalist for the PROSE Award in World History, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the Alice Amsden Book Award, Society for the Advancement of Socio-EconomicsWinner of the Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize, Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association
Co-Winner of the EHS First Monograph Prize, Economic History Society
Co-Winner of the Michael H. Hunt Prize in International History, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Honorable Mention for the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Finalist for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize
Honorable Mention for the Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association
Best Non-fiction Books of 2019" in Marginal Revolution
Winner of the PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban Planning, Association of American PublishersFinalist with Special Recognition for the Brendan Gill Prize, Municipal Art Society of New York
One of Kirkus’ Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books for Fall 2019
Named a Publishers Weekly Big Indie Book of Fall 2019
Finalist for the On the Brinck Book Awards, The University of New Mexico
One of Jewish Ideas Daily.com's 40 Best Jewish Books of 2012
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
Winner of the ASA Book Prize (Herskovits), African Studies AssociationWinner of the Martin A. Klein Prize, American Historical Association
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
Co-Winner of the 2018 Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological AssociationWinner of the 2018 Ab Imperio Award, KRES Poliskola
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture
Winner of the 2018 Dr. Harold and Dorothy Seymour Medal, Society for American Baseball ResearchFinalist for the 2018 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, Pen American Center
Finalist for the 2018 George Washington Prize2017 Finalist in History, ForeWord Reviews’ INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Longlisted for the 2018 Cundill History Prize, McGill University
Co-Winner of the Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Book Prize, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017Honorable Mention for the 2018 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians
Shortlisted for the 2018 European Studies Book Award, Council for European Studies
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books of 2017: HistoryWinner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in History (Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award)
Finalist for the 2018 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, Jewish Book Council
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in History
Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award, Agricultural History SocietyHonorable Mention for the Vincent P. DeSantis Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Co-Winner of the Silver Medal in Business Commentary, Axiom Business Book Awards
One Smithsonian's Ten Best Books About Food of 2019
Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History SocietyCo-Winner of the Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book (North American), Urban History Association
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Winner of the James P. Hanlan Book Prize, New England Historical Association
Honorable Mention for the BAAS Book Prize, British Association for American Studies
Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity (In Memory of Dorothy Kripke)
Winner of the 2019 Francisco Guiccardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations, International Studies AssociationShortlisted for the 2018 Gladstone Prize, Royal Historical Society
Finalist for the TSA/CUP Prize, Transatlantic Studies Association and Cambridge University Press
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017
Winner of the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History and Culture, Association for Jewish StudiesWinner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Women’s Studies (Barbara Dobkin Award)
Finalist for the Dionisius A. Agius Book Prize, Society for the Medieval Mediterranean
Finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship (Nahum Sarna Memorial Award)
Honorable Mention for the 2018 AAR Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies, American Academy of Religion
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
Winner of a 2018 Gourmand World Cookbook Award, U.S. National Winner in “Tea”Winner of the 2018 PCCBS Book Prize, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
Co-Winner of the 2018 ASFS Book Award, Association for the Study of Food and Society
Winner of the 2018 Jerry Bentley Prize in World History, American Historical Association
Winner of the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Outstanding Achievement in HistoryWinner of the James B. Palais Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies
Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize for Best First Book, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Winner of the Distinguished Book Award in U.S. History, Society for Military History
Shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
One of 20 essential books about the Middle East, compiled by the Middle Eastern Studies community at Anhui University in central China
One of Times Higher Education's Best Books of 2018One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2019: History
Winner of the 1998 Howard R. Marraro Prize, American Catholic Historical Association
Winner of the 1999 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize, Literature of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference
Winner of the 2018 Ralph Gomory Prize, Business History ConferenceEdward J. Balleisen, Winner of the 2018 Harold F. Williamson Prize, Business History Conference
Honorable Mention for the 2018 Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Honorable Mention for the ASLE Ecocritical Book Award, Association for the Study of Literature and EnvironmentHonorable Mention for the 2017 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best History Books of 2016
The 2018 Medieval Book of the Year
Winner of the J. Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law and Society AssociationHonorable Mention for the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award, American Society for Legal History
Shortlisted for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, New India Foundation
Winner of the 2015 Best Scholarly Edition in Translation, Society for the Study of Early Modern WomenWinner of the 2017 Paul Hair Prize, African Studies Association
World's 2018 Books of the Year
One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018One of Isthmus' Most Important Books of 2018 (Dave Cieslewicz)
Shortlisted for the 2017 Cundill History Prize, McGill UniversityShortlisted for the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
strategy+business Best Business Book of 2017 in Economics
One of The New York Times Deal Book “Business Books Worth Reading” 2017 (chosen by Andrew Sorkin)
One of The Wall Street Journal’s What Business Leaders Read in 2017
Selected for The HCSS Bookshelf (chosen by Stephan De Spiegeleire) 2017
One of BBC History Magazine’s Books of the Year 2017
One of the Microsoft Best Business Books of 2017
One of Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Dambisa Moyo)
One of the Economist.com “2017 Books of the Year” in Economics and Business
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books of 2017: Economics, chosen by Martin Wolf
One of The Wall Street Journal’s What Business Leaders Read in 2017, chosen by Mohamed A. El-Erian
One of the CNBC 13 Best Business Books of 2017
One of World’s 2017 Books of the Year in “Understanding the World”
Medium.com’s Books of the Year 2017, chosen by Mark Koyama
Finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in History (Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award)One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017
One of Foreign Affairs Best of Books 2017 – Economic, Social, and Environment / Finance
Winner of the BAJS Book Prize, British Association for Jewish Studies
One of the Best Jewish Books of 2018 (Howard Freedman, Jewish News of Northern California)
Winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2015Finalist for the 2017 Prix du Livre Européen, Esprit d’Europe
Winner of the 2018 Judaica Reference and Bibliography Award, Association of Jewish LibrariesWinner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship, Nahum Sarna Memorial Award
One of the Financial Times' Best Books of the Year: Critics' Picks
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Winner of the 2015 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History, Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006Runner-Up for the 2006 National Jewish Book Award in History
Winner of the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for Jews and the Arts: Music, Performance, and Visual, of the Association for Jewish StudiesFinalist for the Award for Excellence in the Historical Study of Religion, American Academy of Religion
Honorable Mention for the James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language AssociationShortlisted for the MSA Book Prize, Modern Studies Association
Winner of the 1997 Gyorgy Ranki Prize, Economic History AssociationWinner of the 1997 Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997
Winner of the 1998 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1999
Winner of the 1999 Arthur Viseltear Prize for the History of Public Health in America, Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association
Winner of the 2001 Koret Jewish Book Award, History of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture
Winner of the Jewish Book Award in Jewish Christian Relations, Jewish Book Council National
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017
Shortlisted for the ICAS Book Prize in Social Sciences, International Convention of Asia Scholars
Winner of the Historians of British Art Book Prize, Pre-1600Shortlisted for the 2019 Wolfson History Prize, Wolfson Foundation
One of History Today's Best Books of 2018
Finalist for the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in History, Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
One of BBC History Magazine's Books of the Year
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
Winner of the 2016 Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American HistoriansNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Winner of a 2017 Distinguished Book Award, Society of Military History
Shortlisted for the Sheikh Zayed Award, Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre
Co-Winner of the Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Book Prize, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)Winner of the Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award, Latin American Studies Association
Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Winner of the William M. LeoGrande Prize, American University’s Center for Latin American & Latino Studies
Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award, Agricultural History Society
Winner of the 2018 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize, American Historical Association
Winner of the 2018 NJSAA Author Award for Popular Non-Fiction, New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance
Winner of the 2016 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian StudiesA Financial Times Summer Books 2015 selection
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books in History 2015, chosen Tony Barber
Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies, Association of American PublishersWinner of the 2016 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History & Culture in Antiquity, Association for Jewish Studies
Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship (Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award), Jewish Book Council
Co-Winner of the 2017 World History Association Jerry Bentley Book Prize
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017Shortlisted for the 2018 Gladstone Prize, Royal Historical Society
Winner of the 2017 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in HistoryWinner of the 2016 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Runner-up for the 2016 Hamilton Book Awards, University Co-operative Society, University of Texas at Austin
Winner of the 2015 Douglass C. North Research Award, Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE)
Winner of the 2015 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Honor Book, 2015 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1995
Winner of the 2016 Philip Taft Labor History Award, Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor RelationsWinner of the 2015 William G. Bowen Award, Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University
Honorable Mention for the 2015 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize for American Legal History/Biography, Langum Charitable Trust
Winner of the 2002 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award
One of Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Books of 2015, chosen by Barry Eichengreen
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
Winner of the 1995 Pfizer Most Outstanding Book Award, History of Science Society
Winner of the 2017 M. Fuat Köprülü Book Prize, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association
Winner of the 2016 European Studies Book Award, Council for European Studies
Winner of the 2016 George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental HistoryWinner of the 2015 Caughey Western History Prize, Western History Association
Winner of the 2015 Hal K. Rothman Prize, Western History Association
Winner of the 2015 David J. Weber-Clements Prize, Western History Association
Winner of a 2015 Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association
Winner of the 2015 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Winner of the 2016 Bronisław Geremek Prize, College of EuropeHonorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in Anthologies and Collections, Jewish Book Council
James P. Hanlan Book Award, New England Historical AssociationWinner of the 2017 Crader Family Book Prize in American Values, Crader Family Endowment at Southeast Missouri State University
Winner of the 2015 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale UniversityHonorable Mention for the 2016 Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize, New England Council on Latin American Studies (NECLAS)
Honorable Mention for the 2015 ASLI Choice Award in History, Atmospheric Science Librarians International
Shortlisted for the 2015 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University
Teofilo F. Ruiz, Winner of the 2011 National Humanities Medal
Winner of the 1998 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Translation Prize, Modern Language AssociationPeter Cole, Winner of a 2010 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Peter Cole is the recipient of a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship
Co-Winner of the 2006 James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize, American Conference for Irish Studies
Winner of the George Louis Beer Prize 2015, American Historical AssociationWinner of the Martin A. Klein Prize 2015, American Historical Association
Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Law & Legal Studies, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2015 Stansky Prize, North American Conference on British StudiesWinner of the 2015 NAVSA Best book of the Year Award, North American Victorian Studies Association
One of HistoryBuff.com’s 10 Can’t-Miss History Books of 2015
Teofilo F. Ruiz, Winner of the 2011 National Humanities Medal
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991
Winner of the 1992 Otis Dudley Duncan Award, American Sociological Association
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991
Finalist for the 1993 Pinkney Prize, Society for French Historical Studies
Winner of the 1992 Best Book Award of the Foundations of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1992
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1993
Winner of the 1993 Ohira Memorial Prize, Masayoshi Memorial Foundation
Winner of the 1990 Bolton Memorial Prize of the Conference on Latin American HistoryOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994
Winner of the 1994 National Jewish Honor Book in Scholarship
Winner of the 1997 Howard R. Marraro Prize, American Catholic Historical Association
Winner of the 1995 Excellence in Book Publishing Award, American Academy of Religion
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1996
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997
Winner of the 1997 Leo Gershoy Award
Winner of the 2015 Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical Association
Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American PublishersOne of The New York Post’s Best Books of 2014
Selected by RTÉ Radio 1 as a 2016 Irish Booksellers’ Recommended TitleOne of The Irish Times “Our Favourite Books of 2016”
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Single Volume Reference/Humanities and Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2016 AAAS Award for Best Book in History, Association for Asian American StudiesWinner of the 2014 Best First Book, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Finalist for the 2015 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013
Shortlisted for the 2014 Sophie Brody Medal, Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of the American Library Association
Winner of the 2015 Best Scholarly Edition in Translation, Society for the Study of Early Modern WomenWinner of the 2017 Paul Hair Prize, African Studies Association
Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2015 Otto Gründler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute of Western Michigan UniversityWinner of the 2013 PROSE Award in European and World History, Association of American Publishers
Jürgen Osterhammel, Winner of the 2017 Toynbee Prize, Toynbee Prize FoundationJürgen Osterhammel, Winner of the 2012 Gerda Henkel Prize, of the Gerda Henkel Foundation
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
One of Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Mark Leonard)
One of Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Books of 2014, chosen by Satiyajit Das
One of Marginal Revolution.com's (Tyler Cowen) Best Non-Fiction Books of 2014
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003
Winner of the 2014 National Jewish Book Award in History (Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award), Jewish Book CouncilHonorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
Special Recognition in the 2009 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Awards
Co-Winner of the 2012 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention for the 2010 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology of Culture Section category, American Sociological Association
Judith Herrin, Winner of the 2016 Dr A.H. Heineken Prize, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Judith Herrin, Winner of the 2016 Dr A.H. Heineken Prize, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Winner of the 2013 Reuven Chaikin Prize, University of HaifaOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013
Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in European and World History, Association of American PublishersOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship, Jewish Book CouncilHonorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies, Association of American Publishers
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
Winner of the 2001 Book Award, New England Historical AssociationWinner of the Robert G. Athearn Prize in Western American History
Winner of the 1998 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, American Historical AssociationWinner of the 1996 Premio del Rey Prize, American Historical Association
Winner of the 1998 Best First Book in Iberian History Award, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
Winner of the 2000 John Nicholas Brown Prize, Medieval Academy of America
Finalist for the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought & Experience (Dorot Foundation Award), Jewish Book Council
Winner of the 2014 George L. Mosse Prize, American Historical AssociationHonorable Mention for the 2014 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Special Mention for the 2014 F. X. Šalda Prize, Institute for Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best History Books of 2013
Winner of the 2013 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Wolf Lepenies, Winner of the 2006 Peace Prize, German Booksellers' Association
Winner of the Warren F. Kuehl Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Best Nonfiction Jewish Book of 2012, Jewish Ideas Daily.comOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013
A Financial Times Book of the YearWinner of the 2010 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize Award, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
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